Emma is the fiancee of the film's protagonist, shy scientist and inventor Alexander Hartdegen. Although she is the one that is killed early on, her death plays a very important part in the movie's plot.She first dies on January 18, 1899 after being accidentally shot in a mugging at the park, when she refuses to give the mugger her engagement ring.When Alexander travels back to that same night to save her, she is instead crushed to death by a spooked horse and carriage while waiting across the street for Alex for buy her flowers.Later on, Alexander accepts the fact that he can never alter Emma's fate since she was the reason why he build the time machine in the first place due to a never-ending paradox.So basically its this: Emma lives = no time machine, Emma dies = time machine is born.FACT: Along with Mara, Vox, and other new characters, she only makes an appearance in the 2002 remake of the film, not the original 1960 version nor the 1895 novella of the same name. Show less «